Re: The Emperor's New Sample Rate

Steven Sullivan <ssully@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> MINe109 <smcelroy2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > On Apr 13, 9:13 pm, Steven Sullivan <ssu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > >
> > > One would hope 'classical' music labels , at least, would
> > > meet the challenge.  (Though Telarc has been known to do funny
> > > things with compression.) Pretty small market share, though.

> > Audiophile product usually is.

> So, now we're talking about a small share of a small share.  Fantastic.
>  
> Except, classical DVD-A and SACD weren't the only hi-rez releases touted
as 'audiophile' 
> quality.
>  
> >From an audiophile standpoint it's already an absurd misuse of CD's
potential (and its inital 
> promise -- advertised as a way to finally get us 'what's on the master
tapes) to 
> compress the dynamics out of music; to do the same on on a 24-bit format
is beyond ludicrous.

> > > So, if you vastly reduce the dynamic range, but refrain from actual
> > > clipping, that's not 'smashed'.  Right.  See the Talking Heads
> > > release for an example.

> > Why 'right'?

> 'Right' as is, 'not right', i.e., sarcasm.

that was a typo -- 'is' should be 'in'.